miniblog.

Is there any relationship between language adoption and the size of its standard library? These days it seems completely orthogonal, but early Java adopters spoke highly of the collections library compared with C++. Maybe it's the widespread availability of package managers?

Are there any package managers that treat changelogs as a first class concept? I end up looking for a CHANGELOG.md or a CHANGES.txt in the source code repository every time. The lack of standard prevents package hosting services being able to show changes.

Do any package managers use bittorrent? I associate bittorrent with distributing large files, but it seems like it would really help scaling. Most traffic to package managers is from CI systems, which could instead run their own local seeding nodes.